Bruce Fowler

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Bruce Fowler
Born (1947-07-10)July 10, 1947
Bruce Lambourne Fowler
Genres Rock, jazz, classical, experimental
Occupation(s) Musician, composer, conductor
Instruments Trombone
Years active 1973 - present
Associated acts Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Ed Mann

Bruce Lambourne Fowler (July 10, 1947)[1] is a prominent American trombone player and composer. He played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart and in the Fowler Brothers Band. Currently, he composes and arranges music for movies, and has been the composer, orchestrator, or conductor for many popular films.

He is the son of jazz educator William L. Fowler, and the brother of multi-instrumentalist Walt Fowler and bassist Tom Fowler. He is the father of Rhea Fowler, bass guitar player for The Naturals. Bruce Fowler is participating in both The Band From Utopia, the Mar Vista Philharmonic, and Jon Larsen's, Strange News From Mars, both feat. Zappa alumni Tommy Mars, Arthur Barrow, amongst others. He also recorded albums with Air Pocket, a band including his siblings among others.

Fowler is the recipient of the 2007 Film & TV Music Awards for Best Score Conductor and Best Orchestrator.

Discography

With Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention

With Captain Beefheart

With The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band

With Eric Clapton

With Stu Nevitt

With Jon Larsen

With Stan Ridgway

With Oingo Boingo

With Ed Mann

  • Perfect World - 1990

With Avenged Sevenfold

Solo works

  • Entropy - 1995
  • Synthetic Division - 1995
  • Ants Can Count - 1995
  • Inception - 2010

References

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